Kits for the weeks life gets hard.
Four printable command-center kits, for the hospital week, the executor year, the dementia diagnosis, and the quiet Sunday you write the rest of it down. Built to be used, not framed.
Four printable command-center kits, for the hospital week, the executor year, the dementia diagnosis, and the quiet Sunday you write the rest of it down. Built to be used, not framed.
The Goodstead collection
Each kit gathers the first steps, the worksheets, and the words for the hard conversations into one printable system. Use the one for the week you are in.
Goodstead kits print at home into a one-inch binder, five dividers, and one page that lives on the fridge. The night something happens, you do not want to be hunting tabs or remembering a doctor's name from a phone call last spring.
Every kit names its sources, writes the hard scripts word-for-word, and includes a Quick Start for the day you have five minutes and no capacity to read.
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Thirty seconds for any EMT, neighbor, or new aide. Insurance, medications, doctors, allergies, the do-not-resuscitate decision, the person to call. Print it once, update it the day a prescription changes.
Every Goodstead kit includes one. Same single page across the family. Same calm voice.
How the Emergency Sheet works →How we make the kits
Every rule, deadline, and number names where it came from, so you are checking a fact, not trusting a stranger's guess.
The sibling ask, the money conversation, the message to the family. Word for word, ready to copy or read out loud.
22 prompts for the free version of ChatGPT or Claude. They draft the appeal letter. They never ask for a Social Security number.
Five dividers, a fridge sheet, a Quick Start. The household has a real place for every fact to land.
From the journal
Plain, sourced field notes you can use without buying a kit. Eleven so far, more on the way.
The discharge playbook
What to require before she leaves, and the Medicare fast appeal most families never use.
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The master record
The bottle sweep, the six columns that matter, and the free pharmacist review nobody books.
Read the guide
The family system
Whole jobs beat task lists, the word-for-word ask, and the paperwork empire for the distant sibling.
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A note from the maker
I built Goodstead the year my grandmother fell and my mother walked into the hospital with a one-inch binder she had carried my whole life. I watched the binder hold a hard season together, and I built the kits so other families can have one without learning the way we learned.
Every kit is tested until someone tired, at a kitchen table, on no sleep, could still follow it. If one ever falls short of that, write me.
— Ryan King, Virginia